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He joins former manager Howard Wilkinson (right)...
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Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live
Most mourners have now arrived at St Mary's Church in Watford for Graham Taylor's funeral.
Watford heroes Luther Blissett and John Barnes arrived together.
Sir Trevor Brooking, former Watford managers Malky Mackay and Aidy Boothroyd, David Platt and former Luton manager David Pleat are also at the church.
Meanwhile, the crowd is being treated to the Vera Lynn song We'll Meet Again being played out of the speakers.
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Image source, Getty ImagesDouglas Marshall
BBC Journalist
Graham Taylor was a massive part of Watford for many football fans, and emotions are running high in the town this lunchtime ahead of his funeral.
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Douglas Marshall
BBC Journalist
Former Watford players are also arriving for Graham Taylor's funeral.
So far I've seen Kenny Jackett, Tommy Smith, Alec Chamberlain, Sean Dyche, Malky Mackay, Ross Jenkins, Steve Terry and Steve Sherwood.
Crowds of fans are also growing outside St Mary's Church.
Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live
Mourners, including the great and the good of football, have begun to arrive at St Mary's Church in Watford for the funeral of Graham Taylor.
So far former Peterborough and Barnet manager Barry Fry, former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and ex-England midfielder Tim Sherwood have arrived.
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BBC Journalist
Mourners are now arriving outside St Mary's Church in the centre of Watford and there are maybe a couple of hundred people so far.
At the moment Buddy Holly songs are being played to the crowd - he was Graham Taylor's favourite singer.
Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio
The memories of Graham Taylor that stand out for me are the warmth of the welcomes he received at former clubs.
They include a standing ovation at Aston Villa when Watford reached the Premier League in 1999. Again when Taylor got the best crystal glass for a post-match drink with Wolves owner Sir Jack Hayward, when the then Wolves manager Colin Lee was drinking tea out of a plastic cup.
Combine that with tributes from the likes of Tony Adams, who devoted his captain's programme notes when Arsenal played Watford in 1999/2000 to Taylor visiting him in prison while England manager, to tell Adams he wanted him to be his captain.
Personally, I remember being ticked off for suggesting that his side had been "lacklustre" in defeat at Tranmere, but praised for a question about John Barnes when he had just lost his job at Celtic.
And then there was his ability to take a joke when I asked if Arsenal had left anyone behind when Watford inherited their training ground.
Arriving at England versus Sweden at the Japan World Cup in 2002, there was a familiar face with a warm handshake. Sitting with him to watch the game is an abiding memory.
Douglas Marshall
BBC Journalist
Today is the day Watford fans are able to pay their final respects to their legend, Graham Taylor.
Gary Armstrong is just one of them.
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Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
A cold and wet day is not putting fans off from paying their respects to Graham Taylor.
There's still just over an hour to go before his funeral in Watford, but many supporters are already in place.
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Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer
Graham Taylor will be remembered by many for his unfulfilling spell in charge of England - but by plenty more as an outstanding club manager at Watford and Aston Villa and one of the nicest, most genuine men in the game.
The reaction to Taylor's death at the age of 72, and the affection expressed for him, was the true measure of his standing inside and outside football.
Image source, Getty ImagesAs a BBC Sport colleague, Taylor was unfailingly co-operative and the consummate professional, willing to take a call at any time, even when he was meant to be spending time with his beloved wife Rita.
And as well as a fount of knowledge and a man with strong opinions, Taylor was also an endless source of entertainment and stories, just as happy to poke fun at himself as everyone else.
Graham Taylor was a top-class manager at club level and a true gentleman inside and outside of football. He will be greatly missed and perhaps now his work in management, viewed through the prism of this sad news, will finally get the credit it fully deserves.
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
Malky Mackay, the former Watford manager and player, was given the gaffer's job by Graham Taylor.
He said his offers of help were "invaluable" and after many years they still "kept in touch".
He described him as a "true football man" who was "someone who cared about Watford and the community aspect and kept reinforcing that with me, that we should be close to our community".
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BBC Journalist
The order of service for Graham Taylor's funeral is being handed out to people who've turned up to pay their respects to the former Watford manager.
It says the service at St Mary's Church will include readings from his family, John Motson on behalf of Elton John and the hymn Abide With Me.
Douglas Marshall
BBC Journalist
There's steady rain in Watford at the moment, but a few dozen people have already arrived outside St Mary's Church in the town centre, two hours ahead of Graham Taylor's funeral.
Douglas Marshall
BBC Journalist
The recently closed One Bell pub in Watford has been transformed into a tribute to Graham Taylor, ahead of his funeral at 13:00.
It even includes quotes from the great man himself covering the boarded-up windows.
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
Dorothy Thornhill, the Mayor of Watford, said despite the sadness of his passing, the funeral of football legend Graham Taylor should be an "uplifting" day and an "historic moment for our town".
She said she's expecting thousands of people to line the streets to pay their respects later. "I hope that our town wraps that family up in love and they feel how much Graham meant to us," she said.
Meanwhile, big screens are up in the town centre ready to relay the funeral to the crowds outside St Mary's Church.
Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio
The first Graham Taylor fan who turned up outside St Mary's Church in Watford, where his funeral will take place at 13:00, was Gina Hall.
She was very emotional as she told me he was "Watford, and he'll never be forgotten".
She explained he helped her family personally by sending a cheque to her daughter so she could train as a disabled athlete abroad, and even gave her husband a signed football shirt when he was diagnosed with cancer.
As she's only 4ft 11in, she even brought a stepladder with her to make sure she'll be able to see above the throng of supporters.
She told me, through tears, "at night he's the brightest star shining over Watford".
Football
Midfielder Adlene Guedioura has just posted this rather long message on Twitter, after leaving Watford last night to join Middlesbrough.
Guedioura, 31, played for Watford 54 times over the last three seasons, including two loan spells, and has signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Boro after moving for an undisclosed fee.
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
"On the eve of Graham Taylor's funeral, Watford produced a fitting performance, the sort Taylor's teams of the eighties used to churn out with regularity, to spectacularly and unexpectedly bloody the nose of one of the big boys. What a night."
Watford's match report writer didn't mince their words on the club's website, external last night, after the team's surprise 2-1 away win at Arsenal.
The crowd paid their own respects at the end of the game...
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Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio
This morning I've been speaking to Rev John Samways, who was a close friend of Graham Taylor and will be leading today's funeral service.
He told me some of his abiding memories of the former Watford manager.
"Graham above all was a man of his word, and if he promised he'd do something he would deliver," he said.
Rev Samways recalled a time when Taylor agreed to visit a local school and his "diary was a bit conflicted". He was in America the day before and flew back overnight.
"He flew into the north of England somewhere and still turned up at the school on time," Rev Samways said.
"He delivered as only Graham can, without any reference to where he'd come from, he was completely selfless - he gave his all and that was Graham."
Football
Football fans across the world have been remembering former Watford and England manager Graham Taylor since the news of his death.
Taylor died on 12 January at the age of 72 of a suspected heart attack.
Watford saluted the club's "greatest manager of all time" before their home Premier League match against Middlesbrough at Vicarage Road on 14 January.
His funeral will take place at 13:00 GMT at St Mary's church in Watford, Hertfordshire.
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